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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves visited the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman and another state prison on Thursday after a surge of violence in the state’s prison system left several inmates dead or injured.

The rebel emblem has come under intensifying criticism in recent weeks amid nationwide protests against racial injustice.

Two of Mississippi’s top elected Republicans proposed Wednesday that the Confederate battle emblem be replaced on the state flag with the words “In God We Trust.”

With Covid-19 cases soaring in the US South and Southwest, the nation’s public health experts fear the end is not yet in sight and wonder what normal will look like as the pandemic stretches on through the rest of the year.

University coaches and Christian ministers filled the Mississippi Capitol on Thursday, urging legislators to seize the moment and remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

Child cases increased by 21% between August 6 and August 20, according to an updated joint report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. More than 440,000 children have been infected in the US since the start of the pandemic, the report said.

(CNN) — Despite frequent warnings from health officials that big gatherings can spread Covid-19, large groups continue to congregate across the United States leading to outbreaks in communities, on college campuses and beyond. Universities in at least 19 states have reported outbreaks, some tied to large group gatherings. Following what the dean of students and […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War. A broad coalition of lawmakers — Black and white, Democrat and Republican — voted Sunday for […]

Hundreds of people in Mississippi’s capital have fled their homes as authorities fear the swollen Pearl River will soon unleash catastrophic flooding.

(CNN) — More neighborhoods in Jackson, Mississippi were starting to flood Saturday as the swollen Pearl River may soon reach its highest point in decades, city officials said. Authorities urged people in mandatory evacuation zones in Mississippi’s capital to leave their homes or ask for help evacuating. “Please, please get out before dark tonight,” Gov. […]

Citizens rallied in Jackson on Friday calling for prison reform across the state of Mississippi.